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title: I will that my sovereign lord should ride back upon him to his camp;… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will that my sovereign lord should ride back upon him to his camp; better horse he could not have." Who acts: I, sovereign lord, Reynaud. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 31

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I will that my sovereign lord should ride back upon him to his camp; better horse he could not have."

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**Who acts:** I, sovereign lord, Reynaud · **What happens:** that, ride back, not have · **To what, where:** camp, better horse

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sovereign lord, Reynaud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:11:31
# text = I will that my sovereign lord should ride back upon him to his camp; better horse he could not have."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	that	that	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **that** | future | I |  |  |  |  | better horse *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride back** | should | my sovereign lord |  |  | Reynaud's camp |  | upon Reynaud | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to camp=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **have** | could | Reynaud | better horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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